Role of environmental pollutants on immune functions, parasitic infections and limb malformations in marine toads and whistling frogs from Bermuda

International Journal of Environmental Health Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-148

  Linzey, Donald W ^a   Burroughs, Joy ^b   Hudson, Lisa ^b   Marini, Michele ^b   Robertson, John ^c   Bacon, Jamie P ^d   Nagarkatti, Mitzi ^e   Nagarkatti, Prakash S ^e  

^a Wytheville Community College   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Bermuda Aquarium Museum & Zoo   (Bermuda)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Developmental malformation; Environmental pollutants; Immunomodulation; Parasitic infections

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; AROCLOR 1254; AROCLOR 1260; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; DICOFOL; DIELDRIN; HEAVY METAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; ZINC;

AMPHIBIAN; HEAVY METAL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BERMUDA; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT BODY; FROG; GRANULOMA; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIMB MALFORMATION; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MACROPHAGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; POLLUTANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPLEEN CELL; TOAD; TREMATODIASIS;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; ANURA; BERMUDA; BUFO MARINUS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; LIVER; SPLEEN; TREMATODA;

BERMUDA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO MARINUS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS JOHNSTONEI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0038236933     PISSN: 09603123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960312031000098053     Document Type: Article

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